“A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.” Quote by Julian Assange
“I think that when somebody tells you something of value, a lot of the time there's this thing that happens, and I don't know if you find it, where they go exactly for the word or the moment or the thing that you were hoping they wouldn't notice, or inside didn't feel 100 percent secure about. If they point it out, then that really sends you the message of, "Okay, I was trying to override my own instincts about it, and I guess I shouldn't."” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsTryingMomentsHappensValuesMy OwnMessagesPercentOkayInstinctSecure Author:Regina Spektor
“I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.” ThinkingWorldStoriesFiction Author:Regina Spektor
“I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.” PeopleThinkingWantMusic IsBe YouFrontiers Author:Regina Spektor
“I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.” StoriesMythLove StoryFairytale Author:Regina Spektor
“I feel different. You know this many times over, because you are a parent, but it transforms you. It's this incredible experience where, in one way, you are still very much yourself, and in some ways you become even more connected to the rest of yourself. All of a sudden, you just get more connected to your child self, and your teenage self, and all these selves that you've maybe been abandoning at every date post that you pass.” KnowsWayFeelsChildrenStillsDifferentSelfParentOur ChildrenIncrediblesConnectedOne WayPostsYour ChildrenTeenage Author:Regina Spektor
“Most of the time I don't even talk about any direct lineage of songs, because I feel like it just chains them down into my own consciousness, and the whole fun of them is being able to live in others' consciousness.” FeelsWholeAbleSongFunMy OwnConsciousnessDirectChainsLineage Author:Regina Spektor
“I'm both kinds of a person; I have a side of me that's very light and very optimistic and finds everything surreal and hilarious, and then I have a side of me that's - I don't know what the right word is - tormented or just feels very overwhelmed.” KnowsFeelsKindPersonsLightSidesOptimisticOverwhelmedSurrealRight Words Author:Regina Spektor
“You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it.” IfsPersonsSongAsksAmountAlbumsStatisticsFavorite Song Author:Regina Spektor
“There's an artist that I listened to for the first time, and I really didn't like them. I had some kind of adverse reaction, and later, it became my favorite thing.” FirstsKindArtistFirst TimeMy FavoriteReactionsFavorites ThingsAdverse Author:Regina Spektor